A full travel ban is still in place for Syria , but the suspension of non-immigrant visas to citizens for Venezuela applies only to senior government officials and their immediate families . Iraq, meanwhile, was also found to fall short of comply... More..

Manning was denied entry to the country due to her prior violations of the United States Espionage Act. Manning is a 29-year-old transgender woman who was known as Bradley Manning when she was convicted in 20...More..

But he noted demand for US crude appeared to be lower, partly as a result of the aftereffects of Hurricane Harvey. After a recent rise in global crude oil prices due to reduced supply, CPC's average price f...More..

By the end of February, Weiner - who by this time knew the girl was only 15 - was video-chatting with her via Skype and using "graphics and obscene language" to ask her to "display her naked body and touch ...More..

However, many observers view the vote in line with a long-pursued Israeli-US agenda to partition regional states. The area sits to the north of the Syrian and Iraqi borders and contains the Habur border cross...More..

One legend claims that the mountain is a fragment of Meru and brought to Bali by the first Hindus. Officials say they are facing difficulty in persuading the rest to follow, as many villagers are anxious about ...More..

In 2011, Federation Internationale de Football Association backed down after threatening to ban the England team from wearing poppies in a friendly against Spain, allowing them to display the symbol on black ...More..

Modi tells cadres to put country first, says party's priorities must go beyond votes. In a press conference, Piyusha Goyal conveyed party chief Amit Shah's address to the national meet. He was a minister in ...More..

NORTH Korea , Venezuela and Chad have been added to the US's travel ban list. Officials described the process of reaching the new recommendations as far more deliberate and systematic than Trump's original ...More..

Eman, who weighed almost 500 kg at the beginning of this year had been airlifted to Mumbai's Saifee Hospital in February and underwent a weight loss procedure - Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy surgery - per...More..

The decision is largely seen as aimed at taking advantage of Abe's recently improved support ratings and opposition disarray. According to a weekend poll in business daily Nikkei , 44 per cent of voters plan t...More..

He said the aspirations of the poor determine the working of the National Democratic Alliance government. He said Thomas Edison, the inventor of electricity, had once said, "We will make electricity so cheap ...More..

On Thursday night Mr Abbott contacted Sky News Bolt Report program to inform them of the incident before he had even spoken to local police. Abbott was in the southern Australian island state to campaign ag...More..

The state-run IRNA news agency quoted chief of the Guard's airspace division, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, as saying that the new missile, named Khoramshahr, "can carry several warheads for various uses". "You are ...More..

Iran on Saturday said it had successfully tested a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) and that can carry multiple warheads, in defiance of United States warnings. "Whether you like it or not...More..

The new bill, sponsored by Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, of SC, and Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, aims to end the Affordable Care Act's requirement for individuals to buy health insurance, would end Medicai...More..

Jayalalithaa was admitted in Chenna's Apollo Hospitals on September 22. Once in a while, with the doctors' permission, she went in and saw the late Chief Minister for a couple of minutes. "We were afraid of Sas...More..

They believe the activity was the result of a natural quake. "In this case we saw none". The CTBTO executive secretary said there had in fact been two tremors. Tensions have continued to rise around the Korea...More..

The North, which says it needs nuclear weapons to protect itself against the threat of invasion by a hostile United States, responded on Friday with a rare personal rebuke from Kim, who called Trump " mentally ...More..

On Friday, Kim Jong Un said the North would consider the " highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history " against the United States and that Trump's comments had confirmed his own nuclear program ...More..

Up until McCain's announcement Friday, close McConnell allies were still optimistic McCain's relationship with Graham might make the difference. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that A...More..

The US president's move to punish foreign companies that deal with the North was the latest salvo in a US-led campaign to isolate and impoverish Kim's government until his country halts its missile and nuclea...More..

The few personal insults that United States presidents have directed toward North Korean leaders seem, by today's standards, nearly quaint. North Korea's foreign minister then threatened to test a hy...More..

It said that it was thought to be an artificial quake caused by a "suspected explosion". "We will build the Belt and Road into a road of peace, prosperity, opening-up as well as innovation, and one that conne...More..

Pyongyang's stated aim is to be able to target the USA mainland and the nation has flaunted the advances in its weapons programme in recent weeks, with the September test of what it said was a miniaturised H-bo...More..